{"id":3320,"date":"2011-01-27T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2011-01-27T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:34:34","slug":"bring-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3320","title":{"rendered":"Bring it on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor is trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/the-monitors-view\/2011\/0127\/Gun-control-in-Congress-Lawmakers-must-shed-their-fear-of-NRA\" target=\"_blank\">encourage Congress to take up gun control<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;In the wake of the Tucson shootings, reasonable gun control legislation has made an appearance on Capitol Hill. It can survive and become law, but only if lawmakers find the courage to back it. One proposal \u2013 introduced in both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\">House<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Senate<\/a> \u2013 would ban high-capacity ammunition clips that hold more than 10 bullets &#8230; Another proposal, introduced this week in the Senate, would close the \u201cgun show loophole\u201d &#8230;\u00a0gun-control advocates are not particularly hopeful &#8230; There is no way to test the waters but to wade into them &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bring it on.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D3320&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3320\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3320\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3320\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor is trying to encourage Congress to take up gun control: &#8220;In the wake of the Tucson shootings, reasonable gun control legislation has made an appearance on Capitol Hill. 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